Peter Stillman writes: Tony Brewer is of course correct: no recent paper in any respectable journal could overtly identify rationality and masculinity. Can people not understand the difference between endorsing the notion that 'rationality is masculine' and the point made by Nelson quoted (from the "respectable" journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives) in the previous e-mail that, historically, "people in U.S. and European cultures tend to mentally *associate* certain characteristics with masculinity or femininity," including, possibly, rationality with masculinity (or verse-vice-a)? Mathew Forstater